BROOCKS, Moses Lycurgus, a Representative from Texas; born near San Augustine, San Augustine County, Tex.,
November 1, 1864; attended the common schools; was graduated from the law department of the
University of Texas at Austin in 1891 and commenced practice at San Augustine; member of the State
house of representatives in 1892; moved to Beaumont, Jefferson County, Tex.; elected district
attorney of the first judicial district of Texas in 1896 and served one term; elected as a Democrat to the
Fifty-ninth Congress (March 4, 1905-March 3, 1907); resumed the practice of law in San Augustine,
Tex., and died there May 27, 1908; interment in Old Broocks Cemetery, about four miles east of San
Augustine, Tex.